Spring 2012 Previews: TOPMAN

The TOPMAN man for next spring is, as they so eloquently put it, a "rebellious decadent." He's that dude in a DB, sucking down champagne at a side street cafe at 3 o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon with two coeds draped on each arm: thatguy. And he looks pretty good in brilliant Moroccan-inspired patterns, jacquards, linens, and rich-toned, tasseled kicks. TOPMAN, like we saw in many of the other European men's shows, favors the fitted, double-breasted jacket over much more relaxed underpinnings as the silhouette for the season, a look of equal parts casual and formal, and pretty much all around bad-ass. Done any skydiving in silk slacks recently? You have? Oh, well then let me introduce you to someone...